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Monday, January 7, 2019

Pelosi Rules the House Again - Joseph Klein

​by Joseph Klein

Leftist agenda - and hate - to be on full display.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) gaveled the
116th Congress into session on Thursday, declaring that the voters opted
for a "new dawn" in the November midterm elections. She added that the
voters are looking to "the beauty of our Constitution," as if her
Democrat House majority would be the nation’s savior from a power-hungry
President Trump. However, it is Nancy Pelosi who is the power-hungry
politician. She arrogantly told the New York Times
that the Constitution gives her power equal to that of the president of
the United States. Pelosi seems to have forgotten that the
Constitution’s system of checks and balances applies to the distribution
of institutional powers amongst the three co-equal branches of the
federal government. The president is the nation's chief executive
officer and commander-in-chief. The speaker of the House is the leader
of only the lower chamber of Congress. Pelosi should take the time to
read Articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution before making such a
ridiculous claim, just as she and her Democrat colleagues should have
read the disastrous Obamacare bill thoroughly before passing it the last
time she served as speaker.

The craziness of the Democrat
House majority rule under Pelosi is just getting started. The incoming
freshman class of progressives and their more senior colleagues on the
left are anxious to impose their leftwing agenda on the country and to
demonize President Trump, if not remove him from office altogether.
Indeed, impeachment resolutions have already been filed. Pelosi will be
leading her raucous caucus’s attempt to undo the progress made at home
and abroad during the previous two years and to obstruct the president’s
efforts to secure the nation’s borders with physical barriers of the
type that border agents believe are necessary.

One of the
Democrats’ senior members on the House Judiciary Committee has just
demonstrated the kind of Trump derangement syndrome and contempt for
ordinary Americans’ concerns that we can now routinely expect. Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson delivered a New Year's Day speech at a Georgia church
in which he compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler, the genocidal
megalomaniac who oversaw the extermination of approximately six million
Jews during the Holocaust. “Americans, particularly black Americans,
can’t afford to make that same mistake about the harm that could be done
by a man named Hitler or a man named Trump,” Rep. Johnson said. “Much
like how Hitler took over the Nazi party,” Johnson added, “Trump has
taken over the Republican Party."

Johnson then went after the
millions of people who supported Trump’s candidacy. "Americans elected
an authoritarian, an anti-immigrant, racist strongman to the nation's
highest office,” Johnson said. “Donald Trump and his Make America Great
Again followers...want to return America back to a time where white men
and white privilege were unchallenged, and where minorities and women
were in their place."

President Trump has spoken out strongly
against anti-Semitism and demonstrated his support for the Jewish State
of Israel through concrete actions. Rep. Johnson, on the other hand,
demonstrated his animus towards those he referred to as “Jewish people,”
who he claimed were taking for themselves the land and property of
Palestinians. He used the Nazi-like dehumanizing analogy of “termites”
in describing how Jewish settlers took residence in the disputed
territories of the West Bank. He made those remarks during an event
sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Johnson
later apologized for what he called a “poor choice of words” and tried
to wriggle out of their clear meaning. However, the damage was already
done.

It is hard to take seriously a man who once said he
feared that stationing 8,000 Marines on Guam would cause the island to
"become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." However,
Congressman Hank Johnson will have significant power as a senior member
of the House Judiciary Committee, participating in endless
investigations of the Trump administration and the likely impeachment
proceedings to follow.

Pelosi and Johnson are representative of the leftwing direction the
Democrat party had been following even before the November midterm
elections. Such senior members of the Democrat caucus will find further
strength in numbers and shared ideology by the addition of newly elected
progressives taking office for the first time. In fact, the senior
members may seem “moderate” by comparison. Incoming Palestinian-American
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for example, said that much of
her “strength comes from being Palestinian.” She also tweeted a month
after the midterm elections that “The Muslimas are coming.” How curious
considering that she is supposed to be representing Americans of all
beliefs in the U.S. Congress.

Tlaib planned to show her full
allegiance to the Palestinian cause by wearing a Palestinian gown at her
swearing-in ceremony. She also wanted to follow in former
Representative Keith Ellison’s footsteps, proving her Islamist
credentials by using Thomas Jefferson’s centuries-old Quran in being
sworn in. “The prophet Mohammed was always talking about freedom and
justice,” she claimed, apparently skipping over those portions of the
Quran and Mohammed’s sayings in the Hadith that demonstrate the precise
opposite.

Tlaib wants to see Israel as it presently exists cut
off from U.S. foreign aid. She supports the so-called “right of return”
that would destroy the Jewish state. Indeed, she wants one state that
would be dominated by the Palestinians, relegating Jews in their own
historic homeland to a minority status. That idea has not worked out so
well for religious minorities in Lebanon. Tlaib also said that she
personally supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement,
accusing Israel of racism akin to “what African-Americans in the United
States endured in the Jim Crow era.”

Tlaib wants President
Trump’s removal from office. “I truly believe he’s racist,” she said,
mirroring her comments about Israel. Tlaib supports open borders and
opposes ICE. She wants not so much to improve Americans’ lives as she
wants to “transform people's lives.” Tlaib described the election of
progressives such as herself as bringing about a “new era of the social
justice movement.”

Socialist-Democrat New York Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez provided more specifics on her own plan to
radically transform Americans’ lives to fit her progressive agenda. She
has proposed legislation establishing a new “Select Committee for a Green Deal”
with the “authority to develop a detailed national, industrial,
economic mobilization plan for the transition of the United States
economy to become greenhouse gas emissions neutral and to significantly
draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote
economic and environmental justice and equality.” Sounds just like the
type of top-down central planning so reminiscent of the former Soviet
Union and Communist China today.

The rule of Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and her majority in the House is not ushering in a “new dawn,” as
she claimed. It foreshadows the sunset of America as we know it, unless
the leftists are checked and eventually voted out of power before they
can do any real damage.